Light is everywhere,it illuminates our world, enables vision, and travels across galaxies. But what is light, really? Is it a ...

The experiment showed that Bohr was definitely correct when he argued for complementarity, and that Einstein had got it wrong. The more atom-rustling that was measured, the weaker the diffraction ...

Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the ...

The concept of light has fascinated scientists for centuries. A recent MIT experiment has reignited the debate about its dual nature. The MIT team revisited a classic experiment with ...

MIT researchers used ultracold atoms to isolate the quantum trade-off between wave interference and particle path detection.

This quantum balancing act—long debated by Einstein and Bohr—was tested without traditional “spring” components, instead ...

Einstein wasn’t satisfied. At a 1927 conference, he suggested a way to catch light in both modes. If you could detect the ...

The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a highly sensitive camera depicted as a screen. Incoherent light ...

In a striking display of quantum physics, a team of researchers has recreated one of science’s most legendary ...

Photons are particles of light, or waves, or something like that, right? [Mithuna Yoganathan] explains this conundrum in more detail than you probably got in your high school phys ...